HIT: Boy Inventor/Sleuth book(s)

[Josie Leavitt <josie@BLACKBOX.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

Dear LM_NETTERs,

Many thanks for all of your ideas about the inventor/sleuth book my
colleague is looking for. Twenty-six people sent suggestions! A few of you
asked if I would post a hit, so here goes. It is a list of long-ago,
well-loved books featuring boy inventors, many of which I haven't read
and am now very interested in finding. I've summarized the suggestions for
brevity's sake:

The Great Brain series by John D. Fitzgerald

The Danny Dunn series by Jay Williams
        _Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine_
        _Danny Dunn and the Smallifying Machine_
        _Danny Dunn and the Automatic House_
        _Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint_
        (and there was also one on time travel)

The Alvin Fernald books by Clifford Hicks
        _The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald_ (Scholastic, 1965)

The McGurk mysteries by Hildick

_George's Marvellous Medicine_ by Roald Dahl

_Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead_ by William Pene DuBois

_The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian_  (author?)

_Henry Huggins_ by Robert McCloskey

Books by Robert Lawson

Einstein Anderson series

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Can't wait to hand this list to the teacher in question--she'll be amazed
at all of you (and the power of the 'net). Anyone want to know which book
rings the bell? ;)

Thanks again,
Elizabeth Bluemle
City & Country School
josie@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu